Truly, My Loving-kindness has sheltered you. If you will look back over the way that you have come, you will find that My Loving-kindness has preserved you. Where would even your life be were it not for My Loving-kindness? If you would hold life alone, apart from the Loving-kindness of the Lord, you would be in a precarious position. No wonder, then, My servant cried out that My Loving-kindness was better than life, because it was the preservation of his life.

I would have you to know that all that which is truly good & eternally good, is proceeding from Mine Own Heart. With My Loving-kindness have I dealt with you in the past, even in the truest manner, for your eternal good. You count Loving-kindness often as that which is a blessing even to your own feelings. But My Loving-kindness has a multitude of `gifts` & a multitude of channels flowing to you, sheltering you & preserving you.

That which is very often called `a curse` is My Loving-kindness in disguise! For often I have sent adversity to you; I have led you the way of difficulty; I have taken you through the desert & I have led you through the wilderness. I have caused you to leave what you call `the land of Plenty.` It was My Loving-kindness. To what intent?

I would have you to learn this, because My Loving-kindness brings it , allowing the circumstances weighing round about you, even to work within you a brokenness. If you will analyse the moments in your experience in which you have been able to say that you are following hard after Me, it is not in the height of your prosperity, & the joys that are present unto you, but you have found that My Loving-kindness has led you through the wilderness & the desert, & everything seems to conspire against you. And if you are unable to meet the demands, & you become broken, melted, lowly, hungering & thirsting after the Lord, because the cisterns had failed & the waters fled, & were broken, then it is that you have had the fullest measure of the greatest blessing, that you can follow & pant after the Lord. It is My Loving-kindness.

If you are looking at life in itself, it will become corrupt. If you are only centred in your own natural life, you are becoming corrupt. If you are only looking at the spiritual life, & looking to yourself, & you have not seen that all comes from the
Lord, you will fade; you will find that what you gloried in, had utterly failed you, & fled from you. It is not sufficient if you look alone at life. My word is that you should look at the LORD HIMSELF from whom comes life.

My Loving-kindness is sheltering & leading you through the way of adversity. To what end? That you may be broken by the Hands that were pierced in love for you, that you may be broken. As you pass through, beseeching the shelter of My Loving-kindness, the Pierced Hand over-shadowing you, the Hand that was wounded for you shall preserve you, through My Loving-kindness.

For you should look not at those things that are adverse, but at the Fountain of your Life & Love, even the Lord your God, & then the Water of Life will never fail you. You can be where you will, & you will not be dried up, & you will not depend upon the outward circumstances. The avenue of your being will be open unto the Lord. Precious are the tears of brokenness in My sight. Not because I delight to see you suffer in any way, but because ye are then looking unto the true Source of blessing, to a stream that cannot be corrupted because your vision is not on the stream, but on the Source of the stream. My Loving-kindness.

No father, no parent that has ever lived has attended to their child as I attend you. Their knowledge is limited; but Mine is Infinite. They do not always know rightly how to temper justice with love, but I never fail; & if you must pass through the way of adversity, I only allow you to pass sufficiently through that way to do the work that I see necessary, & I am tempering it with My love.

I am Sovereign over the enemy, & even if I allow him to work something in you, when the exact time has come & the purpose attained, I stay the action which otherwise would crush the crucible. I will shield you from everything which is unnecessary. Trust My Loving-kindness until you will be able to say that My Loving-kindness is better than life. Because the Life you now have will always be pure, & you will be in that condition that you will be to My Glory & to My Praise & to My Honour because I am sheltering you with My Loving-kindness; My Love which fails not, My knowledge which comprehends & understands all things.

Truly, My Loving-kindness has sheltered you. If you will look back over the way that you have come, you will find that My Loving-kindness has preserved you. Where would even your life be were it not for My Loving-kindness? If you would hold life alone, apart from the Loving-kindness of the Lord, you would be in a precarious position. No wonder, then, My servant cried out that My Loving-kindness was better than life, because it was the preservation of his life.

I would have you to know that all that which is truly good & eternally good, is proceeding from Mine Own Heart. With My Loving-kindness have I dealt with you in the past, even in the truest manner, for your eternal good. You count Loving-kindness often as that which is a blessing even to your own feelings. But My Loving-kindness has a multitude of `gifts` & a multitude of channels flowing to you, sheltering you & preserving you.

That which is very often called `a curse` is My Loving-kindness in disguise! For often I have sent adversity to you; I have led you the way of difficulty; I have taken you through the desert & I have led you through the wilderness. I have caused you to leave what you call `the land of Plenty.` It was My Loving-kindness. To what intent?

I would have you to learn this, because My Loving-kindness brings it , allowing the circumstances weighing round about you, even to work within you a brokenness. If you will analyse the moments in your experience in which you have been able to say that you are following hard after Me, it is not in the height of your prosperity, & the joys that are present unto you, but you have found that My Loving-kindness has led you through the wilderness & the desert, & everything seems to conspire against you. And if you are unable to meet the demands, & you become broken, melted, lowly, hungering & thirsting after the Lord, because the cisterns had failed & the waters fled, & were broken, then it is that you have had the fullest measure of the greatest blessing, that you can follow & pant after the Lord. It is My Loving-kindness.

If you are looking at life in itself, it will become corrupt. If you are only centred in your own natural life, you are becoming corrupt. If you are only looking at the spiritual life, & looking to yourself, & you have not seen that all comes from the
Lord, you will fade; you will find that what you gloried in, had utterly failed you, & fled from you. It is not sufficient if you look alone at life. My word is that you should look at the LORD HIMSELF from whom comes life.

My Loving-kindness is sheltering & leading you through the way of adversity. To what end? That you may be broken by the Hands that were pierced in love for you, that you may be broken. As you pass through, beseeching the shelter of My Loving-kindness, the Pierced Hand over-shadowing you, the Hand that was wounded for you shall preserve you, through My Loving-kindness.

For you should look not at those things that are adverse, but at the Fountain of your Life & Love, even the Lord your God, & then the Water of Life will never fail you. You can be where you will, & you will not be dried up, & you will not depend upon the outward circumstances. The avenue of your being will be open unto the Lord. Precious are the tears of brokenness in My sight. Not because I delight to see you suffer in any way, but because ye are then looking unto the true Source of blessing, to a stream that cannot be corrupted because your vision is not on the stream, but on the Source of the stream. My Loving-kindness.

No father, no parent that has ever lived has attended to their child as I attend you. Their knowledge is limited; but Mine is Infinite. They do not always know rightly how to temper justice with love, but I never fail; & if you must pass through the way of adversity, I only allow you to pass sufficiently through that way to do the work that I see necessary, & I am tempering it with My love.

I am Sovereign over the enemy, & even if I allow him to work something in you, when the exact time has come & the purpose attained, I stay the action which otherwise would crush the crucible. I will shield you from everything which is unnecessary. Trust My Loving-kindness until you will be able to say that My Loving-kindness is better than life. Because the Life you now have will always be pure, & you will be in that condition that you will be to My Glory & to My Praise & to My Honour because I am sheltering you with My Loving-kindness; My Love which fails not, My knowledge which comprehends & understands all things.